why we should

Unable to make the opening night of the exhibition at Platform Arts of Worlding in Gelong|djilong I delayed the trip to the mainland into the penultimate week of the show (ending 19 July 2024). This did give me time to print and bind a doctoral thesis, which Dr Amber Smith kindly emailed to me. Along with the information that Amber…

I'm comparing two frames ① the world or worlding and ② suffering in relation to artificial intelligence. I should note that I suspect that general intelligence does not exist in humans, so creating an artificial version of this would mean creating it for the first time. Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized Digital suffering: why it's a problem…

I read a physical copy of Realist magic : objects, ontology, causality by Timothy Morton and enjoyed reading it, both the writing and the physicality of it in my hands. Its text block is now grubby. But, within the discourse it is a part of, the technical use of ontology and thus object really annoyed me. Not as much as…

Things that annnoy (deprecate 'objects')

Last week in Atlas of non-landscape artists I said that a book had been purchased and subsequently delivered, after I had watched Sam Harris Still Hasn’t “Solved” Morality w/ ‪@lanceindependent in which the book had been mentioned by Lance, with particular reference to Stephen Stich and Edouard Machery. I still haven’t found time to watch the entire stream, but have…

The following paper finds a gap in the ‘science’, then has some handy theology (another outcome and its derivatives of the worlding urge) to through in the gap science has discovered. Seemingly unaware of the whole god of the gaps. From the abstract at philpapers.org: Well to be fair, not a deus ex machina, not quite a god's messenger a'leaping…